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No email service is completely anonymous. Learn how to send an email as anonymously as possible using private email, aliases, and a VPN or Tor. Do you need to send an email without revealing who you are? Unfortunately, you can’t just sign up for a f

Today, we’re introducing Proton Family, our all-in-one plan to protect your family’s privacy.  When you’re a parent, you do everything you can to prepare for the unexpected and keep your family safe. But extending this protection online is difficult

Starting last year, Google began to increase the number of ads displayed in Gmail. It started with more ads in the Promotions tab on mobile. And now it has grown to include advertising messages between regular emails on Gmail’s desktop site. Gmail u

Today, we’re introducing Proton Family, our all-in-one plan to protect your family’s privacy.  When you’re a parent, you do everything you can to prepare for the unexpected and keep your family safe. But extending this protection online is difficult

When you use Proton Drive, you’re often entrusting us with files that are irreplaceable: the deed to your home, your work contract, or family photos. We take this duty seriously, which is why we’re happy to announce Proton Drive’s new version control

Once you’ve created your Proton Mail account, you might still choose to keep your Gmail account active to ensure you don’t miss any messages. This used to mean checking two inboxes and exposing some of your messages to email trackers. Not anymore. Y

Starting last year, Google began to increase the number of ads displayed in Gmail. It started with more ads in the Promotions tab on mobile. And now it has grown to include advertising messages between regular emails on Gmail’s desktop site. Gmail u

The biggest tech companies in the world are quietly lobbying the governments of 14 countries to grant them legal protection from any regulatory oversight. Few people are aware of Big Tech’s plans, shrouded in the secrecy of trade negotiations for th

The United States is notoriously weak on privacy laws. With its secret surveillance courts and all-powerful spy agencies, the US has many tools to collect data on people within its jurisdiction and beyond. Recently, that power has been used to prose

No email service is completely anonymous. Learn how to send an email as anonymously as possible using private email, aliases, and a VPN or Tor. Do you need to send an email without revealing who you are? Unfortunately, you can’t just sign up for a f

Fraudsters have many ways to steal your identity and money, but there are simple steps you can take to protect yourself. Given how much valuable personal data we store online, scammers have a strong incentive to try to steal it. With just a few pers

Almost everything on the internet is encrypted these days. And yet data breaches still frequently spill sensitive files into the hands of hackers, and identity theft is a multi-billion-dollar industry. Why? This article explains what’s broken about

We’re living in the middle of one of the largest tech gold rushes in recent history. OpenAI’s chatbot reached 100 million users in two months. Hoping to keep up, Google introduced its own AI chatbot, and Microsoft added a chatbot to its Bing search e

With over 33 million registered users and more than 100,000 business customers, LastPass is one of the world’s most popular password managers. After an escalating series of highly-damaging disclosures over the last few months, LastPass has now admitt

If you’ve ever stored documents or images on the internet, then you’ve relied on cloud encryption to keep your files safe. Proton Drive, Dropbox, Google Photos, and iCloud are all examples of cloud storage services that use some form of encryption to